Re: Please help me find a good knife sharpener

Thats good advice Lawrie Brownlee, thanks and welcome to the forum .

I have used an oil stone (rough and smooth )when sharpenng knives when I did leaded light work, (stained glass windows )the knife there needs to be kept very sharp to make a clean cut through the lead, I agree , you have to be very carefull .

At home , for most of my knives I use a long 'old fashioned' sharpening steele , I have 2 , one that is smoothed after years of use , I think its probably from the Victorian age.The other one I have had for around 20 years and I think its improved with age !I often use a combination of both .

work-shy , I have some sabatier knives that are pretty old and they do a gets job , I have found them to sharpen well .I have to say here that I have all sorts of knives that I use and am known for changing knicves frequetly as I cook.

I also have some global knives and really do need to buy the correct sharpener for them soon.

Re: Please help me find a good knife sharpener

JoyYamDaisy wrote:

Welcome Lawrie What a fascinating post. I would be a little bit nervous of those slaughtermen's knives! But they would need them sharp!

Yes I would be scared too. But that's a good thing. To have a healthy fear/respect for the knives. Then you won't become complacent and to dumb things with them or sake silly risks. And that's when injuries occur.

Re: Please help me find a good knife sharpener

Hopefully not in the past wine~o , I used to make the windows on a Saturday morning for a few hours each week , taught by a local craftsman .The aim was to be good enough to relead the windows that we have in my house , I was just about there when I fell a few years ago and the shoulder injury has prevented me going back to making the windows.I hope that after this latest operation I will be able to retern to my saturday morning lessons .It's a great thing to learn and once I got over the fear of cutting and handling the glass , I found it quite easy . The difficutly for me was working out the precise measurements in the first place and being a bit too elaborate with the designs !

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